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littlemissmartypants

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7. In 1992

Reply to MoonRiver (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:31 AM

Oct 2014

I treated a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka CJD.

The CDC rep told me there had been "No cases in the US" while I was trying to determine infection control protocol that would be appropriate for the case. I was told to gown, mask, double glove...

I clearly had a case. I also had enough knowledge to know it's mode of transmission. The CDC got it wrong then. I have no faith in them now.

Never trust one source.

That was 1992.

~ Lmsp 🙅

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Question for DUers, especially doctors and nurses. [View all] MoonRiver Oct 2014 OP

No. I wouldn't. nt littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #1

No (nt) bigwillq Oct 2014 #2

Denial is a very primal human strategy. So my answer today might be very different KittyWampus Oct 2014 #3

Though I quit nursing 21 years ago (with the birth of my kids) etherealtruth Oct 2014 #4

No.. likesmountains 52 Oct 2014 #5

I probably would have trusted YarnAddict Oct 2014 #6

Well, I just want to say, MoonRiver Oct 2014 #8

In 1992 littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #7

Wow, so absolutely nothing has changed since then! MoonRiver Oct 2014 #10

I love caregivers, including this poor soul who has been exposed to ebola merrily Oct 2014 #13

I think we're on the same wavelength: Sheldon Cooper Oct 2014 #9

yes we are MoonRiver Oct 2014 #11

Trying to exonerate the CDC? Why? She may have been too ill to think clearly. merrily Oct 2014 #12

Don't know why you think I am exonerating the CDC. I am definitely not doing that. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #14

If what the CDC told her should have been irrelevant to her, how is that not merrily Oct 2014 #15

No, I don't know anything about all that. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #17

In reality, you have no clue what you would have done in her shoes because you don't know the merrily Oct 2014 #18

Yes, I do indeed have a clue. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #23

No--to agree to care for a patient like Duncan is to accept that you might be TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #16

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who was also exposed, and was put into "voluntary quarantine" went to merrily Oct 2014 #19

It's not a matter of "faulting" nurses, it's just that I watch the news (if these nurses had, TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #20

Saying or implying that the nurse should have ignored the CDC is faulting the nurse. merrily Oct 2014 #21

The question was, what would I, as a (former) nurse, have done. TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #22

No. But then, with my microbiology background, if I'd been working with Ebola in scary substandard kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #24